Chapter 0008 Preparing for the Feast (2 / 2)

Lan Xin sensed that something was wrong with her and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing.” Xiang Capsicum smiled in a disguised manner, “I’m just surprised that our Elder Chen’s birthday banquet was able to invite the Marquis’ son as a guest.”

“You’re still really a fool, you don’t look at what the Marquis of Pingnan’s surname is, and what is the surname of the lady of our Chen Mansion?”

It was only then that Xiang Cui realized, “So Mistress came from the Marquis of Pingnan? But how did she marry into the Chen family?”

It was not true that Master Chen was the richest man, but a noble family would never easily marry their daughter to a merchant, and it would be extremely humiliating to say so.

Lan Xin and helplessly and Xiang Capsicum said a lot, Xiang Capsicum then know, today’s wife Xu’s is Pingnan Marquis Xu family side branch of the side branch, and is the concubine. Mr. Chen was begging for marriage with tens of thousands of taels of silver, so the Xu family married quickly.

Xiang Capsicum secretly memorized these, and gratefully thanked Lan Xin again and again, and the two of them became much closer than before.

In the next few days, Xiang Capsicum worked with Lan Xin to prepare for the banquet, and with Lan Xin’s help, Xiang Capsicum gained a lot of knowledge about the mobilization of personnel, in-laws, and business dealings within the government.

Time flew by, and it was less than a week before Elder Chen’s birthday banquet.

Xie Jialong did not sleep well for several weeks in a row, and finally organized a large and small statute about the birthday banquet. But I didn’t expect to be reprimanded when I met my mother-in-law again.

“Other things are fine, but this banquet, guests, seating is the big thing, shopping and other important things I have left to others to do, how can you not understand this thing!”

Xie Jialong had never been good at socializing and couldn’t help but feel a bit aggrieved at what she heard, but she didn’t dare to retort. Xu is, after all, her mother-in-law, and there is still the Marquis of Pingnan behind her.

Of course Xu did it on purpose.

Ever since the last time Xiang Capsicum stabbed through Chen Zisheng’s mind, she had looked at this daughter-in-law of hers with all kinds of displeasure. As a woman, she doesn’t serve her husband well, and spends her days dancing and writing, grieving and saddening, and treating the Chen family with condescension. Obviously, the Xie family has been in decline for a long time, and the money for donating to the government is all from the Chen family, but Xie Jialong is still there all day long, posing for money.

When she thought of this, Xu regretted agreeing to this marriage more and more, and if Xie Jialong was still like this and didn’t know what was important, she wouldn’t mind letting Zisheng have a few more concubines.

This is still looking at the Xie family’s clan members still have a few points of ability, if the Xie family has been in such a state of disrepair, she will definitely find a way to let Zisheng repudiate his wife and marry another.

“Well! It’s really upsetting to see you! I’ll leave all these things to the steward, the Marquis of Pingnan and the Lady Side Consort will be coming to the house that day to celebrate the birthday of the master, as the Chen family’s young lady, you remind the people in the house to be vigilant, keep an eye on the various rooms and courtyards to line up the shifts, and the people coming in and out of the house should be double-checked to be sure, so don’t stir up any trouble, or bump into any dignitaries! Retire!”

Xie Jialong’s eyes instantly reddened, she forced herself not to shed any tears and retreated after a haphazard salute.

She was the only daughter of the Xie family, growing up in fine clothes, her parents pampered her, even her father had never reprimanded her like this.

If the Xie family hadn’t fallen, if the Xie family’s father and brother had been able to hold important positions in the imperial court, how could she have been rebuked by her mother-in-law in such an unsympathetic manner?

Obviously the Chen family is just a lowly merchant family! How are they worthy, how dare they!

Xie Jialong secretly hate, heart secretly think, a smell of copper merchants over a birthday, also worthy of the royal family and marquis to fill the scene?

She wasn’t going to bother with such boring chores, and when the time came, the more chaos the better!